Writer and director Owen Egerton does a splendid job of telling the tale of Mercy Black. Okay, I'm going to get straight to the worst part of the movie. Reviewed by Stephen_A_Abell 6 / 10 Mercy Black. What she discovers is a very real and very deadly horror that will stop at nothing to claim her and her nephew. To save him, Marina must face her past and uncover the truth behind Mercy Black. Though she would rather leave the past buried, her nephew becomes increasingly obsessed with Mercy Black. Marina is haunted by what she has done and the phantom she imagined. But in the years since her crime, the myth of Mercy Black has gone viral inspiring internet rumors, stories, and even copycat crimes. She's being released from psychiatric care to live with her sister and young nephew. This article first appeared in Voxxi.Fifteen years after stabbing a classmate to conjure an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, Marina Hess is coming home.
Court of Human Rights… for all, not only for the Daughters of the American Revolution. There is a European Court of Human Rights. This is a question of the rights and dignity of people, who should not be at the mercy of ignorant cowboy sheriffs in two-bit towns immigrants, who, for the most part, are honest, and hard-working, striving for a better life. No wonder I think there is a Black Legend still in force. Politicians from both parties are courting and wooing the Hispanic vote while they are not lifting a finger to right the wrongs they themselves are inflicting on immigrants. The arrogance and contempt of presidents and diplomatic representatives towards foreigners in general, and South Americans in particular, cries for redress. I saw in that program how Mexicans crossed the bridge at El Paso, daily, to work, to study, being treated as cattle or criminals by the migra. She expressed herself in fluent and educated Spanish, while tears rolled down her cheeks because she could not understand how authorities could do such things to immigrants. Yesterday I saw a program on Televisión Española, TVE1, about the plight of a Mexican family whose parents were deported after 20 years’ residence in Texas, and their children, all born in the US, left behind to fend for themselves, under the care of the eldest, a fourteen-year old girl. With the excuse of national security, a Department of Homeland Security has been concocted in order to persecute immigrants, foreigners, detain them, often illegally, and deport them, with the excuse of terrorism. In a way this is happening also in the United States today. They were supposed to be a threat, a menace to the State. The Inquisition hunted dissenters, tortured and robbed them of their property all done with the excuse of national security, the purity of religion, territorial integrity. Spain expelled moriscos, and jews, both groups being Spanish subjects of the crown.
The real black legends of both countries are the atrocities both nations perpetrated on their own nationals. We all know these historical facts, of course, but I wish to advance the theory that the real Black Legend of both countries is not due to what they did in the world, abroad, but what was done to their own population. Americans can read “Yankee go home” smeared on walls of most foreign cities. Spaniards were feared and hated in the world, even to this day. Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Cuba…. Bear in mind the question of Panama.Īfter that, the US became the police of the world with the excuse of defending freedom and democracy for all. The United Fruit Company is still remembered in Central America, just as the Duke of Alva is in Holland and Belgium. Cuba became an independent republic of sorts. started a war against Spain (1898) to help the Spanish colonies become free, and annexed Puerto Rico and the Philippines for starters. In essence it told European powers to keep off limits. The Monroe Doctrine was proposed in 1823, and “America for the Americans,” was its motto. Bartolomé de las Casas was the mastermind of the legend in the Americas.
The conquistadores evoke cruelty against Indians soldiers of fortune who plundered all the gold of Potosí and destroyed the ancient empires and cultures of idyllic and innocent people, who became enslaved and exploited. The Duke of Alva is still remembered in the Low Countries as the leader of blood-thirsty and merciless troops. ( La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica) which conjures memories of ruthless Spanish armies sacking, pillaging and creating havoc in Europe. The Spanish Leyenda Negra was a term coined by Julian Juderías in 1914. The Spanish Black Legend, Leyenda negra, and the American Black Legend are very similar, too similar for comfort.
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